Changed user name--Idiotic as I have found out!

For the last two days, I have been searching for my lost user data. Yes, I changed the user name which is not a thing to do as I have found out the hard way. I have looked through discussions and looked in all the suggested places for the data but have been unable to find it. Please help, I am running Windows Parallel and that data which is connected to this user has also been lost. The account I have lost is for my office account and we have no IT support that can respond quickly--what a mess!
Following is the link on how to restore if I could find the data but I can't.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107854
Just a bit of background:
I have set-up a new user account and the new home directory looks as it should. I have saved the corrupted directory (the one missing the user data and have searched it for files such as the ones I had put on the desktop previous to the username change but to no avail) as a deleted user .dmg file. I could recreate everything but will definitely have lost some emails and files as our work server only holds onto my data for 7 days before removing it. My blackberry will have the emails but only the truncated versions. By the way, my personal user file is fine and working perfectly.
Very desperate not to have to recreate and wonder what I have lost. Many thanks in advance for any help. Caroline
MacBook 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Mac OS X (10.4.8) 1.5 GB 667 MHz DDR SDRAM

This is what I got and I still don't see the old
\\Last login: Sat Jan 20 16:38:57 on console
Welcome to Darwin!
Caroline-MacBook:~ cline1703$ ls -al /Users
total 16
drwxrwxr-t 8 root admin 272 Jan 19 21:36 .
drwxrwxr-t 30 root admin 1122 Jan 20 15:50 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 501 admin 6148 Jan 21 21:26 .DS_Store
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Aug 19 22:39 .localized
drwxrwx--- 4 root admin 136 Jan 19 21:36 Deleted Users
drwxrwxrwt 5 root wheel 170 Dec 13 14:32 Shared
drwxr-xr-x 14 caroline caroline 476 Jan 21 21:26 carolinedw
drwxr-xr-x 14 cline170 cline170 476 Jan 20 15:53 cline1703
Caroline-MacBook:~ cline1703$
The caroline (carolinedw) is the new desktop I created for my work that has no data user; cline1703 is my personal user data--working fine. The deleted users has the corrupted, renamed work user data. I don't know what the rest are but they don't have the original user name which had the short name 'carolinewright' and the user name of 'caroline'--I then renamed the user to 'CarolineDW'. Surely this data has to be hiding somewhere--any ideas?
Thanks for all the help. Caroline

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